Written in WORLD the 26/5/2022 · 01:10 hs
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WASHINGTON (EFE).— The Governor of Oklahoma, Kevin Stitt, yesterday signed a new law that prohibits abortion in the state from the moment of fertilization, considered the most restrictive legislation in the United States.
The law, which allows criminal proceedings against anyone who helps a woman to have an abortion, came into force after the president’s signature.
“Life begins from conception and we have a responsibility as human beings to do everything possible to protect the life of that baby and that of the mother,” the governor said in a statement.
The NGO Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) responded in a statement that “no one should be forced to continue a pregnancy against their will” and that prohibiting abortion endangers women, who have to terminate their pregnancies outside the health system. Health.
The law, approved by both houses of the state, prohibits any abortion from fertilization, except when the life of the mother is in danger, or when the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest.
In addition, following the line of the controversial law against abortion approved last year in Texas, the new norm allows citizens to denounce any company or person that assists a woman in the interruption of her pregnancy.
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